Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Layers: When not to stop - week 6 DLP

February Theme Layers You Will Love! February 7 Art Challenge: When Not To StopJournal Prompt: "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough!" (Ooh)For some reason I was a little "stuck" on this week's prompt. I typically do a lot of layers in my work, so I am not really sure why I felt stuck. Perhaps because I was busy and not really making time, or rather scheduling time for art. None the less, I made myself start! That trick always seems to work. I had been saving fruit and veggie labels/stickers and dove in by placing them in my journal in a pleasing pattern. Anything to get me going on this!

I also added a scrap of magazine page on the left. For my next layer I poured a bit of Orange Dye-na-flow paint on top of the stickers and magazine paper.

With the wet paint swirling around, I closed and opened the journal. This made a Rorschach looking beetle in the middle that I kind of liked. I used a scrap of silk test material, leftover from a class I had taught that week and pounced the extra paint around to fill some of the white space. This spread had a minimal amount of layers but at the time I felt ready to stop. I had enough!! It wasn't until working on week 7 that I returned to this and added a few more layers . . . some close ups below.

The finished spread . . . Not my most favorite journal spread, but as I said in my Polaroid Blipfoto journal, "It's not my best work, but it is my art work and that is what is important - just doing it."

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I'm a creative artist working in mixed-media who lives in Florida with my husband Steve and our dog Chloe, cats Lightning & Luna... I love to create, to share & inspire. I also enjoy dancing, taking photographs, working in my art journals, creating small collage & mail art, really doing anything creative! We are fortunate to live on the Braden River, traveling by boat quite a lot.

I've been published in books, magazines and hosted many art exchanges or swaps. View the past swap art I've hosted & learn about any new swaps on the creativeswaps blog.

My website has been online since 1995 with many thanks to my son Decklin! When he was just 14 years old he coded a website for me, amazing. About 20 years later I built a brand new site for myself with Squarespace. It's a work in progress, but I'm very proud of what I've managed to do! ❤ Go here to view it: creative lenna website

Between 2006-2015, I wrote and shared over 1000 entries on creativelenna blogspot. I do not add posts to this blog anymore because I've created my own personal blog as part of the creative lenna website. But, the original blog remains online as an archive. The current blog is found on my new website. ❤

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